A black lacquer three-case inro
By Sakai Kyozan (Haritsu III), 18th century
Of wide form, bearing a roiro ground, lacquered and inlaid with two swimming fish and two shellfish among aquatic plants, in gold and silver takamakie with details of inlaid aogai, the interior of nashiji, signed Kyozan zo; with a silver ojime in the form of an octopus.
8.2cm (3¼in) wide.
Of wide form, bearing a roiro ground, lacquered and inlaid with two swimming fish and two shellfish among aquatic plants, in gold and silver takamakie with details of inlaid aogai, the interior of nashiji, signed Kyozan zo; with a silver ojime in the form of an octopus.
8.2cm (3¼in) wide.
Sold for
£8,750
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 海幸図蒔絵螺鈿印籠 銘「巨山造」 18世紀
Provenance: purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1965.
Wrangham collection, no.566.
Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.156, Kyozan, Sakai, left.
Exhibited: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972, no.10.
Eccentrics in Netsuke, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1982, no.20.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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